Avoid ‘Manager Suck’ as an SME
📺 https://youtu.be/sgck8mJzA5A
- Subject Matter Experts get pulled into meetings more and more
- Getting disconnected from the tech that makes you an SME
- Beware of becoming someone’s “pocket tech”
- Flatters your ego, beware
- Pretty soon you will start to grow “pointy hair”
- Ellen Ullman: “Stay close to the machine.”
- …unless you want to become a manager
- “Engineers build civilizations, [managers] get the glory.”
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